Miller wrote: “To dream of dust covering you, denotes that you will be slightly injured in business by the failure of…” Compare 3 historical dream books.
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Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Dust · Heading 675; source lines 8106–8114 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of dust covering you, denotes that you will be slightly injured in business by the failure of others. For a young woman, this denotes that she will be set aside by her lover for a newer flame. If you free yourself of the dust by using judicious measures, you will clear up the loss.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Dust · Heading 213; source line 1864 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream you are in a room or in the road where the dust is flying so as to choke you, it shows that some one is plotting to injure you in some way or to make a speculation out of you.
Katherine Taylor Craig
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Dust · Printed p. 213; NLM OCR lines 9817–9820 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of temporary calamity (Gypsy). Dust is the Christian symbol of humility and woe, but its effects are obviously temporary and easily thrown aside.
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